...batteries.
Time and again were they captured by our men, and very often retaken by the enemy.
The most excited creature on the battle field was the Rev. Mr. Repetto, Captain of the Page Co. (Va.) Grays , who claimed the honor of taking Rickett's (Sherman's) battery.
Of his whole company, nearly one hundred strong, he had only eighteen uninjured.
Another of our reverends, Colonel Pendleton, a gra...